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This is a guest post from my good friend, Mr. Credit Card, from www.askmrcreditcard.com. For the past three years, his Philadelphia Phillies have been the nemesis of my beloved Los Angeles Dodgers.
I certainly feel we can learn a lot from how ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

This morning I find myself running to my office with a package in hand, looking desperately for something to cut the tape with. A painting has just arrived by Priority Mail, and I can't wait to open it. It is something that was offered by a seller ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

Well, I've been moonlighting again for American Express's cleverly titled Currency blog. I know. But this Christmas the Honeybee decided to ask for the first seven seasons of Grey's Anatomy. No, not on Blue-ray DVD -- she wants the whole ...

Although I was born after the Beatles first set foot in America, that never kept me from being a huge fan of the band. Like most fans, I own the entire Beatles catalog. In fact, over the years I've bought it twice -- once on cassette tape and a ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

Any time I get an email offering me a free anything just for clicking on a link, I get suspicious.
I know. I'm just paranoid that way, but it usually saves me a lot of heartache down the road.
Not five minutes ago I got an email from "J" who ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

As a Southern California native, I took great interest in the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors decision to save the world by passing an ordinance that bans plastic shopping bags at grocery stores, pharmacies and convenience stores.
The ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
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I hate it when I see people waste food.
I'm not sure why, but I've always been that way. Somebody who believes in reincarnation once told me that I probably starved to death in a past life. Okay.
Another pet peeve of mine is carelessly ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

by Rob Clymo
Being able to access the internet and your email, no matter what the location is an incredibly handy thing to have. Thanks to a wealth of deals, it's now quick, easy and relatively cheap for anyone to get connected too with a simple ...

In case anybody is interested, here is Nina's Halloween take this year.
I had her itemize everything in her bag when she got home Sunday night. Isn't that terrible?
Actually, she didn't mind at all. She happily put this together for me in no ...

One of the joys of having an eponymous personal finance blog is I don't ever feel compelled to ensure every article has to be about, well, personal finance.
Oh, I know what you're thinking: but, Len, it says right there in the header that this is ...

Did you know that dollar stores have been around since 1955 when Dollar General opened its first one in Springfield, Kentucky? It's true.
Granted, in terms of purchasing power, a dollar went a lot further back then -- equivalent to just a hair ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over ...

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